Robert De Niro and Matt Damon will be on Hardball next week, so they played a little teaser clip for us. Damon thinks that all of America should share the burden of war and maybe the Bush Twins could be serving our country better shopping in Baghdad.

certain (economic)group of people in America who basically have to enter the military for financial or other reasons, and that it is not fair that they should bear the entire burden of Bush's wars of aggression. He was saying that if a draft was initiated, all would have to sacrifice equally, and that if Pres. Bush has draft age daughters, maybe they too should have to serve, and possiblly be sent to Iraq, too. Bet that would stop the war pronto.

There's a reason we all fought so hard to end the fucking draft. It has never been and will never be fairly administered. There will always be loopholes for fat cat contributors so their kids won't go, just like Congress writes sweetheart deductions on their income taxes and buries it in unrelated bills.

Consider what Stupid would be if he had a nearly unlimited supply of manpower to throw at the middle east.

Never bring back the draft. We now know madmen can cheat their way into office. We know a lack of manpower in the military is limiting this one's ambition to conquer a whole region to control its oil.

20. I completely agree. But I believe that just the threat of a draft could

bring a quick end to our overseas adventures. I lived through the Vietnam era draft,and it was not a pleasant thing to live through. You are right, though, the wealthy and well connected will always find a way to subvert equality and fairness.

The threat of a draft won't work. Too many people who are too old for it but too young to remember Vietnam will support it as a way to show patriotism, give Junior some training, make a man of him, blah blah blah.

Sometimes you need to listen to those of us who have been there. Theories are fine, but an examination of practice in the past will demonstrate most of them don't work.

having an all volunteer military does make it just a little too easy to get into "invasions" without having the country realize the consequences. I believe that's what Damon is saying. And what Eisenhower said over fifty years ago.The military industrial complex is too intrusive into our policy making.War is supposed to be the last resort after all other options have been exhausted.The invasion of Iraq clearly was not the last resort.The Bushies cooked up the books to get us into this mess for war profiteering and American colonialism.A horrific mistake has been made. And the people who were the "deciders" are not the ones paying the price.

to get us involved in stupid wars is falsified by vietnam. Stupid war, conscript army. The draft certainly might mobilize antiwar sentiment EVENTUALLY, but our leaders have never ever had a problem getting us into wars, conscript army or volunteer army, getting in has always been simple. Getting out of a bad war is an entirely different problem.

and amend the constitution, if that's what it takes, to be a defensive force, only. Under that definition, they could have gone into Afghanistan to roust the political entity that attacked us. However, Iraq would have been out of the question.

The all volunteer military is now working exactly the way it's supposed to, with fewer volunteering as long as a madman who sees himself as emperor occupies the White House.

Notice that a purely defensive military doesn't preclude a draft. However, one supposes that to be unnecessary unless this country really has been attacked.

War is ruinously expensive and destroys everyone involved in it, actively or passively, either physically or mentally or both. It is to be avoided at all costs. It should be used only to repel an enemy.

Instead of some bizarre indirect self defeating idiocy such as 'bring back the draft to end the war', what needs to be done is to legally restrict our military to defensive operations and to get back to the pre-WWII situation where committing our troops to operations outside our borders, where committing our troops into war, requires a formal declaration of war. It is time to stop this nonsense once and for all.

out loud on national tv! Especially when that certain "president" lied to get is into the war on Iraq and keeps saying everything is peachy keen and he's not going to ever leave Iraq while he's the decider.

"You know and if the President has daughters who are of age then maybe they should go too…"

10. Shopping in Iraq is exactly the goal of the corporate/military invasion.

They'd love for it to become a 'free trade' zone for consumerism. And I'm sure the Bush twins will be the first one's to cut the ribbon at the opening of the new MALL OF AMERI.....errrrr...IRAQ.Buy, be entertained, but by all means....don't look behind the bloody curtain.

There were many things Bill Clinton did well -- he was a smart man. However, under the "sanctions regime" preceding the current catastrofuck, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died horribly from lack of medicine and adequate clean water facilities. Some of that is doubtless Saddam's fault, and some of it is the fault of UNSC-mandated bombings of civilian infrastructure to enforce "no fly zones".

It truly is a testament to the idiocy of W that he managed to make things WORSE for Iraqis than they already were in the 20 years previous.

34. To be fair to Chelsea I doubt she is like her mother, I think she is very liberal

and intelligent and never would have been for the war in the first place. I could be wrong, but I just see her as skeptical of the war. The Bush twins deserve to go over there just so their act gets straightened out and because they are so spoiled. Chelsea was one of the least spolied kids ever in the Whitehouse. Plus, Bushie twins campaigned for Daddy's presidency knowing the Iraq war was raging in 2004.

Staunch supporters of President Bush's War they believe we should keep troops in Iraq and stay the course. But when these conservatives are asked if they would be willing to send their sons and daughters in harm's way,the answer is always "NO."

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